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How to restore a Guest account on Windows 10

Shulou Source: shulou.com Published: 2022-06-01 06:07:44 10月04日 Update

Xiaobian to share with you how to restore guest accounts on Windows 10, I believe most people do not know how, so share this article for everyone's reference, I hope you have a lot of harvest after reading this article, let's go to understand it together!

As with previous versions of Windows, Windows 10 provides terms for creating guest accounts. This allows users to log on to the system and use the same method, but usually without administrator status. Guest accounts can also be considered temporary arrangements for people you know have access to PCs.

In Windows 10, guest accounts are considered a security threat and are the reason they are disabled by default. All of this also makes it imperative that you be able to recover all of the information created through the guest account.

Now that the guest account itself has disappeared, restoring the information created using that account can seem daunting. On the contrary, it becomes so simple. This is the step.

How to restore Guest account on Win10?

1. using Windows Explorer

Click Start> Windows Explorer. Alternatively, you can press Windows key + E.

--Click this PC in the options on the left, and then double-click Local Disk(C :).

Open the Users folder.

--In the Users folder, there should be another folder named Guest. Double-click it to open it.

--Agree to any authentication window that may open to seek user privileges.

Under the Guest folder, navigate to the My Documents folder as well.

--Find the file you are looking for and copy it to a safe location.

--Repeat the same procedure for each other folder under the Guest folder to recover the files present therein.

2. using command prompt

--Launch a command prompt window. Simply type cmd in the Cortana search box and select from the search results.

--In the Command Prompt window, type net user guest / active: yes, and then press Enter.

--Click Start.

--Click Account Name in the options on the left side of the Start menu, and then select Logout.

--Check to see if you can access the Guest account.

--If yes, log in and retrieve the required file.

--If not, access files saved under the Guest account as described in *** above.

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